I think the movie/story The Mist has a lot of different things to recommend it but I always really liked the conclusion and the point I felt it was making about hope vs despair.
Plot points for the movie follow:
This probably is type related but I was wondering what do you think is mankind's default when confronted with the truly uncanny like in this movie? Is it despair, insanity and death? Or do you think most people would be more likely to trust or be part of mankind prevailing against the odds? Why?
Plot points for the movie follow:
The survivors of a siege by truly uncanny, hell dimension monsters are sure the world has been totally overwhelmed and they do not want to share the fate of some of the people they've seen die horribly, so they make a suicide pact and one guy shoots the others. He does this just in time for the mist to lift and he sees a convoy of heavily armed and armoured troops appear, they are attacking monsterous Cthulu style behemoths with rockets and driving them back. Its shit for him because he just shot his son and the others.
This probably is type related but I was wondering what do you think is mankind's default when confronted with the truly uncanny like in this movie? Is it despair, insanity and death? Or do you think most people would be more likely to trust or be part of mankind prevailing against the odds? Why?